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The politics of food:

9780313363283

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The politics of food:

the global conflict between food security and food sovereignty

/William D. Schanbacher.

Santa Barbara, Calif.

: Praeger Security International

2010.

xvii, 148 p. ; 24 cm.

[E-book]

Includes bibliographical references (p. [135]-144) and index.

Globalization, development, food security and the emergence of a global food regime -- The underside of development -- Food sovereignty as an alternative -- Human rights, human responsibilities, and the capabilities approach -- Ethical analysis of food sovereignty and the ethics of globalization.

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Summary: Riots protesting the World Trade Organization (WTO) on the streets of Seattle in 1999, global demonstrations against the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF), and civil unrest around the world due to rising food prices in 2008 all speak to a growing global awareness of and discontent with the fact that the basic necessity of food is not reaching hundreds of millions of people around the world each year. These protests, marches, and often violent uprisings can be viewed, in part, as a growing chorus of voices speaking out against the political and economic policies by the world's affluent, industrialized countries and the global governance institutions that propagate these policies around the world. The creation of the World Bank and IMF in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire after the end of the World War II ushered in a new era of globalization that has culminated in forms of global governance that have left many asking: Who are the true beneficiaries of current models of globalization, and why do billions of people around the world continue to live in poverty despite World Bank and IMF promises to solve this problem? Of particular importance with respect to these questions is the role food production, distribution, and consumption plays as an aspect of hunger and malnutrition.

Food supply -- Government policy.;

Food supply -- Political aspects.

Schanbacher, William D.

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Azarakhsh Institute

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